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Lot 301

MILTON, John. The Poetical Works. --Some Account of the Life and Writings. L, 1801-1809. LARGE PAPER EDITION OF FIRST EDITION. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.
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MILTON, John (1608-1674). The Poetical Works. 6 volumes. -- Some Account of the Life and Writings. Henry John Todd, editor. London: Bye and Law, and Law and Gilbert for J. Johnson et al, 1801-1809.


7 volumes, 8vo (261 x 162 mm). 3 engraved portrait frontispieces. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 13 engraved plates. (Slight spotting and toning.) Later brown morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, edges gilt, stamp-signed by F. Bedford (some minor staining and scuffing, slight wear to extremities). Provenance: John Delaware Lewis (1828-1884), Member of Parliament for Devonport (morocco bookplate); Charles Harold St John Hornby (1867-1946), founder of the Ashendene Press (bookplates); sold Sotheby's, 31 October 1974, Lot 754; sold Henry Sotheran & Co. (labels).

LARGE PAPER EDITION OF FIRST EDITION of Todd's The Poetical Works, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 12 engraved plates to Paradise Lost in vols. II and III after Burney, and another engraved plate in vol. VII. With the second edition of The Life.

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